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    <body><![CDATA[Seems like lots of people are producing LaBute these days.  I do enjoy him in many ways.  Although this is pretty much a monologue play and I stand by the belief that monologue plays are just the easy route to take for playwrights.  It's much harder to figure out how to tell the story through, you k...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63483645">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought this at the first BC/EFA Broadway Flea Market I went to, in 2000.  The play was new then, so I bought it with a bunch of other books for a dollar, but never read it.  Or any LaBute, for that matter.  Probably because I was pretty sure I wouldn't like it.  Perhaps because I was worried I wou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60377104">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Super plays.  Mark LaRocco introduced me to these a while back.  That's why I like him.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[the most deliciously-dark trio of dramas. ]]></body>
    
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